Sonar6 - Performance Management Blog

Sonar6 has made a name for itself as one of the most accessible and user friendly performance review systems available - but that didn’t happen by chance. We spend a huge amount of time researching and refining our interface, and with an audience as diverse as ours, that’s something we can’t afford to get wrong.

In this article Catherine Bircher, Sonar6’s Quality Lead, discusses some of the challenges we face when it comes to designing our UI, and what we’re doing to make Sonar6 v3 easy for everyone to use.

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Well, we finally did it. After playing Sardines for a couple of years, we’ve moved to a bigger office space – we’ve now got room to swing whole families of cats!

Only joking; we love cats.

Sonar6’s Head Office is now at 23a Union Street, Freemans Bay Auckland; an invigorating 5 minute walk from our old offices and right by the Wellington Street on-ramp. We’re still getting everything set up and stored away (and figuring out where to put the Wii), but if you’re in the neighbourhood, drop in and say hi!

Head Office contact details:

23a Union St
Freemans Bay
Auckland 1010
New Zealand

PO Box 911461
Victoria Street West
Auckland 1142

Phone: 0800 SONAR6 / 09 968 2133
Fax: 09 929 3393

Last month Sonar6 went along to the awards ceremony for the 2008 Design in Business Awards. While we didn’t win, we had a enjoyable evening in some very talented company.

Congratulations to the team from tapware manufacturer Methven for winning this year’s award, and to the Highly Commended AuCom Electronics and phil&teds on their recognition. It was of course an honour to make it to the finals, and we appreciated the opportunity to practice our gracious loser faces!

Sonar6 was visited last week by America’s Cup sailor Ray Davies. Ray was the strategist onboard Team New Zealand as they won the Louis Vuitton Cup and challenged for the America’s Cup off Valencia last year. He talked to our development team and our HQ sales and marketing team about the similarities between winning yacht races and running a startup technology company…

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People often ask where the name Sonar6 came from. It might not seem the most obvious name for a web-based performance management solution, but we didn’t draw it out of a hat…
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Sonar6 is built on three simple tenets. We thought it was about time they went on the wall…
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We’ve made it a lot easier for you to find your way around the new website - now you can log in from the front page. In future, all you need to do to get to the Sonar6 tool is click the ‘customer login’ link in the upper right of your screen. That’s it!